Again: alternatives and connections

To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a…

The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back…

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; t…

Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova…

To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.

The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on…

That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of…

severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back

- (/). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at…

A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out…

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.

To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to r…

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror…

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".